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venus hair

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Ve⋅nus's-hair

[vee-nuh-siz-hair]
–noun
a delicate maidenhair fern, Adiantum capillus-veneris.

Origin:
1540–50
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Venus hair or Venus' hair also Venus's hair  
n.  A maidenhair fern (Adiantum capillus-veneris) of warm moist regions, having slender blackish stalks, bipinnately compound fronds, and marginal sori.
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